Here’s your stupid Broncos / Patriots AFC Championship prediction.
“It’s wonderful that the Patriots are coming to town to battle the Broncos for a chance to go to the Super Bowl. If you want to be the best you have to beat the best. What a match-up! Brady VS Manning in the sunshine of beautiful Denver in the house that Elway built.”
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It’s kind of hard to believe that the Broncos are one win away to their first appearance in the Super Bowl since 1999. One more win. Cliché as it sounds, it really does seem like they just broke training camp. All fifty-five of Peyton’s touchdown tosses seem like a blur. All thirteen wins and those three miserable losses sailed by this season.
Maybe it’s only because time passes more quickly now relative to my advancing years but I can’t ever remember a season flying by so quickly. That’s the beauty of the NFL though – seventeen weeks of regular season games and straight to the playoffs you go. Not like College football. Not like baseball with its endless season or the NBA with playoffs that seem to go on forever.
It’s wonderful that the Patriots are coming to town to battle the Broncos for a chance to go to the Super Bowl. If you want to be the best you have to beat the best. What a match-up! Brady VS Manning in the sunshine of beautiful Denver in the house that Elway built. Glorious. Broncos Country could not have asked for a more sensational pairing or a better opportunity to see Peyton Manning enhance his legacy as a member of our team.
Who’s going to win on Sunday? I’ll spare you the drama. The Broncos are. The way I see it, though, the Patriots will make it interesting – Real interesting. Overtime interesting. I don’t think these two teams can finish their business in just four quarters.
The Broncos are a nice match-up for the Patriots, especially with even more injuries to their secondary. The Patriots are a nice match-up for the Broncos who have too many offensive weapons for New England to cover. Both teams can run the ball. Both teams can throw. Both teams can – and will – score.
Where the later Sunday game between the Seahawks and ‘Niners shapes up to be a grinding battle of defensive wills, the Broncos / Patriots game is likely to highlight the powerful offenses of each club. The role of the defenses will be mostly to keep things from spinning out of control and may be force a couple of turnovers.
I think that either the Broncos or Patriots will lead by 14 in the third quarter and that the game will be tied back up again in the fourth. One or the other Hall of Fame quarterback will be forced to bring his team back to force overtime.
It will come down to a long Matt Prater kick in the extra period. By that point, of course, Broncos fans will have chewed their fingernails down to the nubs. It’ll feel great though knowing that the Denver Broncos are headed back to the Super Bowl.
